100 Years of ships

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Visualization of 18th and 19th-century shipping routes: it shows about 100 years of ship paths in the seas, as recorded in hundreds of ship's log books, by hand, one or several times a day. The data source is a dataset of the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans 1750-1850 (CLIWOC) project (European Union funded project, 2001-2003). This dataset contains information from the log books of ships (mostly from Britain, France, Spain and The Netherlands) sailing between 1750 and 1850, which have been digitized for climatological purposes. The routes are plotted from the lat/long positions derived from the ships’ logs. The data base is far from comprehensive. https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/04/visualizing-ocean-shipping.html According to CLIWOC, the project concentrates on British, Dutch, French, Spanish and Argentinean sources: In Britain the principal sources are the National Maritime Museum (NMM) and the Public Records Office (PRO), both in London, where the logs prep

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